Example sentences of "[adj] years at [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 As Nick Gatfield , director of A&R for EMI Records ( UK ) says , ‘ In three and a half years at EMI I have signed only one artist from an unsolicited demo tape . ’
2 The first few years at school I learnt nothing —
3 After three years at Cambridge there 's nothing soft about Dublin now .
4 Bernard loved moving , and they had now spent nearly five years at Rhydoldog which was as long as he liked to spend anywhere .
5 In my earliest years at Magdalen I inhabited a world where hardly anything I wanted to know needed to be found out by my own unaided efforts .
6 Leaning forward in the rattan chair , on the after deck , he said , ‘ I tell you , Doctor ’ — he always addressed me thus , showing the respect of one professional man for another ‘ in over thirty years at sea I 've become a specialist in islands .
7 In his last years at Repton he was happier .
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